Debian 5.0: DSA-2133-1 Critical: collectd Denial Of Service

It was discovered that collectd, a statistics collection and monitoring
daemon, is prone to a denial of service attach via a crafted network
packet.


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.4.2-3+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.10.1-1+squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.10.1-2.1.


This advisory only contains the packages for the alpha, amd64, arm,
armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, s390 and sparc architectures.
The packages for the mipsel architecture will be released soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your collectd packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corr...